Does Linux use bestow geekdom? (Score 1)

While trying to stay out of the main areas of the fray, I think that it is funny that the use of linux makes him a "geek candidate". With all of the major distributions attempting to make it easier to use linux and with the battlecrys from the purists saying "you can do everything with linux" does it really seem like that much of a feat to run linux anymore?

I think it would be more impressive to say "I successfully and reliably use Windows".

Just a thought